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Canterbury Christ Church University has identified developing its international work as one of its' aims in the strategic plan 2006-2010 (p 7). More specifically, the Faculty of Education is seeking to broaden and internationalise its' courses. To this end we are:

We have also just revalidated our BA Ed programme and will be including a module for ALL students on the international dimension in their third
year. This is something we have not had in our programmes before.

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The inputs from WEDG, while one-offs, must be seen in this wider context: we have a number of staff who are strongly committed to international work. This includes Stephen Scoffham, Terry Whyte, Jonathan Barnes, Ralph Leighton, Sue Hammond, Peter Dorman, Claire Hewlett. The point is that we are moving forward on a broad front with a considerable number of tutors supporting these developments. WEDG can contribute to this process, helping both to facilitate what we know we want to do and initiating new approaches and modes of delivery through its expertise and example.

Of course, the inputs are individual and apparently isolated. We would hardly ask WEDG to run an entire course on our behalf when we have plenty of expertise in house! However, they can be seen as strategic and highly effective interventions. WEDG has contributed to lots of different courses, such as:

  • Year 3 BA Ed geography course
  • PGCE primary course
  • PGCE Secondary citizenship course

In each case the WEDG input adds to and enhances what is already in place. In other words it amplifies the message and helps to build a critical mass which is shifting the centre of gravity in our course delivery and planning.

Canterbury Christ Church University has an outstanding record for its education courses. WEDG is contributing to changing the way one of the country's leading providers approaches its' work. Can there be a better lever for change? A single session with 50 teachers in training could impact on 10,000 children in a single year (200 children in each school that a trainee works in). This must be a very good investment indeed.

Stephen Scoffham, Principal Lecturer, CCCU, January 2008

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